Bilateral pleural effusions due to pulmonary amyloidosis as the presenting manifestation of multiple myeloma

Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Agarwal, Abhishek ^a   Singla, Sandeep ^a   Bansal, Meghana ^a   Nair, Bijay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORTEZOMIB; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; MELPHALAN;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDEMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG AMYLOIDOSIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANASARCA; ATELECTASIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; MEDIASTINUM LYMPHADENOPATHY; PLEURODESIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEPSIS;

EID: 84857482107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20353006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4084/MJHID.2012.010     Document Type: Article

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